The World Economic Forum has a tradition of bringing together a sprinkling of academics and entrepreneurial innovators to mix with business and policy elites at… Read more »
Pioneers of ethology Tinbergen and Lorenz relied on observations made with their own eyes and computed by their own brains when they proposed that animal… Read more »
A lost dimension of life is being restored to the laboratory worm Caenorhabditis elegans. With the promise of building yet further on its already resounding… Read more »
Astrocytes are star-shaped glial cells of the central nervous system. They support neurons in many ways but do they have a role in helping the brain to sleep?… Read more »
When BMC Biology launched its iconic image we acknowledged the extreme artistic licence of portraying selected vertebrate phyla pictorially while whole… Read more »
Health and healthcare were a prominent theme of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, and one of the first sessions took a look into our medical… Read more »
Blind mole rats (Spalax spp) are extraordinary rodents that spend most of their lives underground, digging in poorly ventilated tunnels. Their ability to… Read more »
The problem of antibiotic resistance, recently described as “apocalyptic” by Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer of the UK, is getting worse and cannot be… Read more »
Inside insects there is an open cavity called the hemocoel, in which fluid and cells known as hemocytes circulate due to the pumping of a heart. The hemocytes … Read more »
Songbirds learn to sing in the same way that human infants learn to talk: by imitating other members of their species. Their songs are important in… Read more »